I was surfing on ebay and this came across with couple of them which is pretty interesting:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/20HP-...01384207QQrdZ1


Any thoughts of this?

 

dont buy it. it will mess with your ecu, you will have multiple problems down the road.

"you get what you pay for"

 

dang ...! ebay is just full of this crap, deff dont get that. icould tell you horror stories of people whose gotten burned on the ''20hp chip'' they get it then a month later their replacing their engine.

 

there are many names for these.. mostly all relating to the same scientific term: Fecal Matter

 

since matty isn't here to say it i'll do it for him. search before you post please. there must be hundreds of these posts with the exact same answers

 

Headline

XA - XB - TC

Since when did all 3 vehicles use the same engine??
NO CHIP WORKS 2 DIFFERENT ENGINE WITHOUT SEPERATE PROGRAMMING!!

dxallydx

 

i'll sell you a grounding kit to go along with it

 

 

if you have a good sound system.... ill take one to go with it

 

will that fit my tC type R ?

 

type ARGH!

 

I hope nobody falls for this. All they are selling you is a common resistor (can't tell the resistance from the picture, but I'd guess its relatively high). They are completely worthless. If you really want to do this modification, which really just tricks your engine into burning a richer fuel/air mix, then go buy a pack of 100 resistors from Radio Shack, install one on your car, and sell the remainder to suckers on eBay for roughly a $2000 profit.

 

yeah, its all crap. your ecu will adjust itself to the new "lower" temp that this resistor will be producing...

 

yeah its a 50 cent resistor that you can buy at radio shack.

 

Haha what a joke.

 

50 cents? That sounds steep. And if the tC ecu works anything like the one in the xB, it compensates for the 'enhanced' programming of the magic 'chip' after a few hundred miles.

I really love the ones that come in a fancy box with wires coming out of it. Makes it look so professional. Hell, if they could figure out how to put an LED on it so you know when it's "working" I bet you'd see one in every Civic with a grounding kit and weed-eater sounding muffler.

 

That is complete b.s.! The chip actually gives you an extra 50hp, not 20. Those ebay folks are known for giving conservative numbers, because they rely on word of mouth so heavily.

 

hmmm I could build one with racing LEDs like the front of KIT , or maybe one with a "Performance Increase" meter made of LEDs... I bet those would be hot on ebay

 

But could you live with yourself for selling them...that's the real question.